jeremy's review
Last Evenings on Earth (New Directions Paperbook)
by Roberto Bolaño
jeremy's review
Last Evenings on Earth (New Directions Paperbook) by Roberto Bolaño
jeremy's review
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When he died in 2003, at the age of fifty, Roberto Bolaño was all but unknown anywhere north of the Rio Grande, yet is now acclaimed internationally and considered amongst the most eminent figures in Latin American letters. Chilean by birth, but living in exile throughout much of his life, Bolaño had always been a dedicated writer, yet began publishing with increasing fervor in the mid-1990's. Like much of his work, including the incomparable epic The Savage Detectives, Last Evenings on Earth is a bold, singular effort that defies easy classification. Many of the fourteen stories contained in Last Evenings are incisive, yet existentially enigmatic, tales of writers longing to discover the elusive answers to questions of craft and self, some of which turn out to be ambiguous at best. Often somber, even haunting, these short stories unfurl in the low-lit peripheries of prescience and immediacy that Bolaño most likely knew all too well.
